Martystuff

Hi everybody,
The sock puppet and human rock band that I am a part of is releasing our new EP of covers, “Jokey Jingles Dance Party Mix Volume 3″ today. For free! Just sign up for our e-mail list at
unclemonsterface.com and it’s yours for free!

Songs originally made by Madonna, Oingo Boingo, The Aquabats, The Residents, and Britney Spears. Re-made the Monsterface way!

And check out our video for “Like A Prayer” featuring the Dino-Skeleton Island Sock Puppet Boys and Girls and Monsters Club Choir and me in my underpants!

Yay!
lovemarty

dear internet.
as you are a robot, too, i’m sure you’ll understand my recent reticence to brave so much predicted rain. this weekend, i say “predictions be damned.” let our circuits be fried together!
barring downpours and inevitable electrocutions:
i will be selling in nyc’s union square friday june 26 and saturday june 27,
with an outside chance of sunday.

and belated apologies for not telling you my hours for the previous two weeks, internet. luckily, you are a forgiving robot. we have so much in common.

lovemarty

Greetings friends of the sock puppet portrait world
Uncle Monsterface, our sock puppet and human rock band has some exciting excitements!
As you may have heard,
we are premiering the live version of our epic rock song
MASHED POTATO vs VAMPIRE!
June 6, 2009 – 7pm
The Tank! - 354 West 45th
AL AGES! | $7
Here’s the facebok event invite some friends!
Tickets available here!

IT WILL FEATURE A GIANT MASHED POTATO FIGHTING A VAMPIRE WITH A HUGE HEAD!

In honor of this historic event, we are offering a free download of this EPIC song!
Mashed Potato Vs. Vampire
Learn your parts so that you can sing along!
Continue reading ‘Monsterface’s Mashed Potato VS Vampire Premieres June 6!’

hi internet,
how’s stuff?
good, good.
anyways, the good news is that i’m definitely including three never-before-seen sock puppet portraits at the small exhibition in the lobby of The Tank (opening reception tonight at 6:30!).

the bad news is that i won’t be out selling puppety pitures in nyc’s union square this weekend(weekend of the 15th). it is my friend tobias’s birthdae, and he insists that you only turn one once. consequently, if you need a puppet portrait fix, come to the opening tonight, cuz stuff will be for sale there, too.

merry various holidays.
lovemarty

woah!
check this out!
Time Out did another amazing post about the show opening yesterday.

Thanks to everyone who came out yesterday, it was such an awesome opening! The new portraits are up at Sputnik through April 12, and they’ll have some for sale there the whole time.

Off to New jersey for monsterface rockin.

lovemarty

Hi internet.
Just a quick reminder that tonight is the opening for my show premiering the 9 new Puppet Portraits in Brooklyn. Come by and say “howdy”, look at puppet pictures, have a burger. As featured in TimeOut New York. They’ll be available for sale for the first time tonight, too. Huzzah!

In honor of this excitement, Sgt. Bullocks from the Series 2 Sock Puppet Portraits has released his song, “First Beating”. Check it out on the decrepit Myspace
at myspace.com/sgtbullocks.
Listen, become his friend, you know the drill.

In review:
Portrait of A Sock Puppet
Uncle Monsterface’s Marty Allen’s premieres his nine new Series 2.5 Sock Puppet Portraits
at Sputnik
(www.barsputnik.com)
262 Taaffe Place
Brooklyn, NY 11205
(One block from the G-train, Classon Ave stop)
Artist’s Reception: March 12, 2009, 8pm
Exhibition: March 12 – April 12

Hopefully I will see you tonight! Or some day!

lovemarty

ps. Then Monsterface plays Jersey on Friday the BOSTON next Friday, opening BUFF at TT the Bear’s. AWESOME!

Greetings, friends, superhuman bears, illegitimate grocerymen,
I’m really excited to announce that the newest Sock Puppet Portraits, Series 2.5 are finished! They won’t be ready for online sales for a little while, but I’m thrilled to premiere them at my favorite local bar – Sputnik!

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This will be the first time I’ll have displayed my Sock Puppet Portraits since Series 1.5 premiered in Chicago in late 2007, and I’m so excited to show them at this amazing bar, club, and little art space that has become like a second-home to me (which isn’t a stretch, as I live doors down from it). This will be a rare occasion to see lots of the puppets displayed (and sold) at the “irrationally large” size of 8″x10″, as well.
Continue reading ‘Announcing the World Premiere of Series 2.5 Sock Puppet Portraits in Brooklyn, March 12′

Greetings Dear Friends of the Sock Puppet Arts,
Much action is about, and in the midst of the fray, my dear friend from the Series 2 Sock Puppet Portraits,
Henchley Von Gussington, has completed his Myspace profile and uploaded some of his…groundbreaking…compositions.
please check him out at:
myspace.com/henchleyvongussington

Henchley deeply wanted me to pass on a message himself –
“People and friends you are the feeling and the listening bell.
This is the SpiritHeartJourney in 3 of the movements. You feel it and the course moves from river to arrow. A blondness [ed. note: I really think he might mean "blindness" here, but I can never be sure] is another truth, the bear seeks the source factory and unites in the arms of the fly and the heart and the burger king. Please hear, listen. Listen for the bear, hear the burden, and unite.”
Continue reading ‘Henchley Puppet Songs of Confusion and Glory’

hi.
my peanut butter & jellery is an olde song project i’ve been working on forever. here is a new little song from it:
10pigeonsandpaper
if you are curious to find others (and a league of olde songaday songs), hop on over to
martystuff.blogspot.com.
or!
the myspace.com/martysongs. because SOME PEOPLE still use the myspace…

yay.
lovemarty

The exciting-excitement prevalent in the making of new sock puppets and their portraits persists on and beyond that which we can even conceive!


Pictured above: eyeball making! They don’t all come from the aforementioned magical box… some are apparently born on macaroni and cheese boxes!

And then: sometimes puppet-building involves scissor-threatening. They must be kept in line at all costs!

What mysterious magic is this?!!

Or this?!!! How infuriatingly tantalizing! I simply must Blog about it RIGHT NOW!

By way of proving both to myself and many of my former teachers how much I obsess over each absurd detail, here is a litany of dog noses…

…which went on to become a mysterious puppy! Who is that DOGGGGGGyy!?

I still didn’t find anywhere for this beautiful bunny button. But I love it and wanted to show you.

And I’m so into this little hat that I made…

…and all of these puppets that I made..!

…and making a mess!!!

Ok, that’s all for preview-time hooray show of ego-mania and joy! Buckle in for the actual release of these puppets this Spring, as well as lots of Myspace Songs to come!

Thanks for being awesome and looking at things,
lovemarty